Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1887-02-02

R5H Persons calling for the above
letters will please say, "Advertised."
WIN. d. MCMAsTER, 2. NJ.
Those people who wanted an sold
fashioned winter" have got what they
wanted, the January thaw included.
Don't think because we have cut the
price of this paper down to 81 25 a
year, that you can let it run along nine
or ten years and then pay for it at this
rate. You can't do it. $3.50 will be
charged in all such cases, with interest
after the first year.
PENCIL RKs.-Thermometcr at
zero, and showing this morning.
DO you see signs of Spring-hardly.-
Chas. L. Randall returned to Chicago
last week. Miss Carrie Sumner has
gone to Lakewood, n. j., for visit
of couple of months. We shook the
"lind" of our old democratic friend,
James p. Dean of Lawrence, Mass,
yesterday; he was on his way to visit
friends in Barnard.-Mark +. Slayton
was in town this morning, called on us,
and wanted to know if we heard the
rumor that S. G.. White, Woodstock
boy, now of Cove, Oregon, was dead
we hadn't, and cannot credit yet.
Hon. Prosper Merrill is domiciled in
the "Putnam' at Palatka. Fla; we
congratulate you, friend, in being in
land Of balm and bloom. Several of
our citizens slipped down the past
week and got 'iarred," as the late
John W. Chadwick remarked when he
fell down once on memorable oc-
casion, among them Mrs. Purple and
Mrs. Farewell we have not heard Of
any bones icing broken, which is
ortunate.-Frank Dana can tell you,
if he will, what the duties of a Teller
in a circus are; odd Age got badly
sold that time, and it made heap of
fun for the boys; well, a classical cdu-
cation is costive, anyway; the "Pro-
fessor" posted him HANDSOMELY
To the loafer "there is no place like
home, especially when other places
are closed for the night II. Perk-
kins is confined again with sciatica.-
Mrs. Giles W. Thomas is a very sick
woman the other sick folks arc about
the same.-The crows don't make |
much racket on Mt. Tom. Are you
glad the days are longer:
January Is gone. Joy be with it, 1t !
was no great loss. 1t gave US lots of
cold weather, but it gave us the his
toric january thaw." Last week it
moved things, especially the ice in the
Quechee and smaller streams in the
vicinity. Above the "Lincoln bridge"
near Charles Fay's, Saturday, the ice
damned into the road from six to ten
feet high, for about three.quarters
of mile, stopping all team travel.
Billings stage could not get through,
SO he put up his horses and William
and Charles M. Cobb "hucked' it
to Bridgewater with the mail, accom-
panied by minister of the gospel, who
was passenger on the stage. Sun
day a gang of men cleared the road,
and MIR. Billings went up to Bridge
water Sunday and brought the mail
down on horseback in the afternoon.
You have had your share of trouble
and vexation Of spirit, no doubt, but,
perhaps, you have escaped that modern
curse, the stylographic pen, which
weeps out ink when you don't want it |
to, but never a tear when there is
work to do. We have had experience
nothing like experience-and after a
big wrestle with it and lots of patience, |
we laid the "dear thing away" for
our grandchildren to experiment"
with and wonder as to it use.
We are little late in giving the
following divorce cases granted at the
late term of the county court here, but
they will be new to some of our read
ers. Old "intolerable severity" seems
to be the chief cause for separation:
Sarah Ann Stevens VS.. George C Ste
vens, with the custody of her minor
children, for wilful desertion; Julia F.
Markham VS.. Samuel B. Markham, for
intolerable severity; Lucy J Bundy
vs. Lewis S. Bundy, for intolerable
severity, with the custody of her
minor children; Martha A. Clifford vs..
Sylvester H. Clifford, for intolerable
severity; Jenne E. Brooks vs.. Charles
E. Brooks, for intolersble severity;
Ida Belle Davis vs.. Hiram W. Davis,
tor iutolarabls severity.